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Theme: Films of 1972

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1972)

6 May 199926 July 2019

Rating: ★★½

Alice in Wonderland Adaptation

Director: William Sterling
Actors: Fiona Fullerton, Michael Crawford, Peter Sellers, Dudley Moore, …
Category: Fantasy

The Amazing Mr Blunden (1972)

11 May 19996 August 2019

Rating: ★★★

Children’s Ghost Story/Time Travel

Director: Lionel Jeffries
Actors: Lynne Frederick, Diana Dors, Lawrence Naismith, Rosalyn Landor, …
Category: Fantasy

The Asphyx (1972)

2 June 199922 September 2019

Rating: ★★★½

Capturing the Spirit of Death

Director: Peter Newbrook
Actors: Robert Stephens, Robert Powell, Jane Lapotaire
Category: Horror

Asylum (1972)

1 April 200224 September 2019

Rating: ★★★½

Horror Anthology

Director: Roy Ward Baker
Actors: Robert Powell, Peter Cushing, Charlotte Rampling, Britt Ekland, …
Category: Horror

The Baby (1972)

6 January 200419 October 2019

Rating: 0­

Demented Lunacy/Man with a Child’s Mind

Director: Ted Post
Actors: Ruth Roman, Anjanette Comer, Marianna Hill, Suzanne Zenor, …
Category: Horror

Baffled! (1972)

24 June 201521 September 2020

Rating: ★★

Clairvoyant Thriller

Director: Philip Leacock
Actors: Leonard Nimoy, Susan Hampshire, Vera Miles, Rachel Roberts, …
Category: Fantasy

Baron Blood (1972)

8 November 200413 October 2020

Rating: ★★★

Italian Gothic/Sadistic Nobleman Resurrected

Director: Mario Bava
Actors: Elke Sommer, Joseph Cotten, Antonio Cantafora, Massimo Girotti, …
Category: Horror

Ben (1972)

20 June 200013 January 2020

Rating: ½

Willard Sequel/Rats Amok

Director: Phil Karlson
Actors: Lee Harcourt Montgomery, Joseph Campanella, Meredith Baxter, Arthur O'Connell
Category: Horror

Beware! The Blob (1972)

1 April 200213 January 2020

Rating: ★

The Blob Comedy Sequel

Director: Larry Hagman
Actors: Robert Walker, Godfrey Cambridge, Gerrit Graham, Carol Lynley, …
Category: Science Fiction

Blacula (1972)

11 July 200028 January 2020

Rating: ★★

Blaxploitation Vampire Film

Director: William Crain
Actors: William Marshall, Vonetta McGee, Thalmus Rasulala, Gordon Pinsent, …
Category: Horror

Blood of Ghastly Horror (1972)

5 February 200114 July 2020

Rating: 0­

Monster Amok

Director: Al Adamson
Actors: John Carradine, Tommy Kirk, Regina Carrol, Roy Morton, …
Category: Horror

Blood Orgy of the She-Devils (1972)

3 September 20056 May 2020

Rating: ★

Occultism and Witchcraft

Director: Ted V. Mikels
Category: Horror

The Blood Spattered Bride (1972)

12 August 199910 February 2020

Rating: ★★½

Lesbian Vampires

Director: Vicente Aranda
Actors: Alexandra Bastedo, Maribel Martin
Category: Horror

Bluebeard (1972)

31 January 201420 February 2020

Rating: ★★

Multiple Wife Murderer

Director: Edward Dmytryk
Actors: Richard Burton, Raquel Welch, Joey Heatherton, Nathalie Delon, …
Category: Horror

The Brides Wore Blood (1972)

3 May 20169 March 2020

Rating: ★★

Family Curse/Occult Rituals

Director: Robert R. Favorite
Category: Horror

Burke & Hare (1972)

20 October 201616 March 2020

Rating: ★★

19th Century Grave Robbers

Director: Vernon Sewell
Actors: Derren Nesbitt, Glynn Edwards, Harry Andrews, Joan Carol, …
Category: Horror

Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter (1974)

1 April 200127 February 2020

Rating: ★★★

Hammer Vampire Hunter Film

Director: Brian Clemens
Actors: Horst Janson, Caroline Munro, John Cater, John Carson, …
Category: Horror

Child’s Play (1972)

25 August 200117 April 2020

Rating: ★★★

Catholic Boys’ Boarding School Sadism

Director: Sidney Lumet
Actors: James Mason, Beau Bridges, Robert Preston
Category: Horror

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)

22 May 200110 May 2020

Rating: ★★★

Planet of the Apes Sequel

Director: J. Lee Thompson
Actors: Roddy McDowall, Ricardo Montalban, Don Murray, Hari Rhodes, …
Category: Science Fiction

Count Dracula’s Great Love (1972)

6 August 201317 May 2020

Rating: ★★

Vampire Film

Director: Javier Aguirre
Actors: Paul Naschy, Rosanna Yanni, Mirta Miller
Category: Horror

Crawlspace (1972)

27 December 200718 May 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Mentally Disturbed Stranger in the Cellar

Director: John Newland
Actors: Arthur Kennedy, Teresa Wright, Eugene Roche
Category: Horror

The Daughter of Dracula (1972)

23 April 201917 September 2020

Rating: ★★

Lesbian Vampire Film

Director: Jess Franco
Actors: Britt Nichols, Anne Libert, Alberto Dalbes, Jess Franco, …
Category: Horror

Dear Dead Delilah (1972)

12 February 201912 February 2019

Rating: ★

Grand Dame Guignol/Southern Murder Plot

Director: John Farris
Actors: Agnes Moorehead, Patricia Carmichael, Dennis Patrick, Michael Ansara, …
Category: Horror

Death Line (1972)

8 September 19991 July 2020

Rating: ★★★

Lost Society of Cannibals in the London Underground

Director: Gary Sherman
Actors: Donald Pleasence, Christopher Lee, Norman Rossington, James Cossins
Category: Horror

Deathmaster (1972)

18 May 20163 July 2020

Rating: ★★½

Vampire Hippie Cult Leader

Director: Ray Danton
Actors: Robert Quarry, John Fiedler
Category: Horror

Deep River Savages (1972)

4 May 20036 July 2020

Rating: ★★★

Italian Cannibal Film

Director: Umberto Lenzi
Actors: Ivan Rassimov, Me Me Lai
Category: Horror

Deliverance (1972)

21 January 200028 April 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Backwoods Brutality

Director: John Boorman
Actors: Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox
Category: Horror

The Demons (1972)

9 April 201517 June 2020

Rating: ★★

Witch Persecutions/Witch’s Retribution

Director: Jess Franco
Actors: Anne Libert, Britt Nichols, Alberto Dalbes, Howard Vernon, …
Category: Horror

Demons of the Mind (1972)

16 December 200022 July 2020

Rating: ★★★

Family Madness and Victorian Psychology/Hammer Film

Director: Peter Sykes
Actors: Robert Hardy, Shane Briant, Patrick Magee, Paul Jones, …
Category: Horror

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)

23 May 200319 November 2019

Rating: ★★★

Surrealism

Director: Luis Buñuel
Actors: Fernando Rey, Stephane Audran, Delphine Seyrig, Jean-Pierre Cassel
Category: Fantasy

Doomsday Machine (1972)

27 August 20202 October 2020

Rating: 0­

Astronauts Survive the End of the World

Director: Harry Hope, Lee Sholem
Actors: Bobby Van, Grant Williams, James Craig, Mala Powers, …
Category: Science Fiction

Doomwatch (1972)

2 May 200227 August 2020

Rating: ★★★

Toxic Spill/Mutations

Director: Peter Sasdy
Actors: Ian Bannen, Judy Geeson, George Sanders, Geoffrey Keen
Category: Science Fiction

Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)

5 January 20157 March 2020

Rating: ★★

Hammer Contemporary Dracula

Director: Alan Gibson
Actors: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Stephanie Beacham, Christopher Neame, …
Category: Horror

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)

4 April 20013 November 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Sex-Themed Skits/Genre Spoofs

Director: Woody Allen
Actors: Woody Allen, Gene Wilder, John Carradine, Lynn Redgrave, …
Category: Science Fiction

Fear in the Night (1972)

29 July 20029 May 2020

Rating: ★★★

Hammer Psycho-Thriller

Director: Jimmy Sangster
Actors: Peter Cushing, Joan Collins, Ralph Bates, Judy Geeson
Category: Horror

Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972)

21 November 201411 September 2020

Rating: ★★★

Women’s Prison Breakout/Revenge

Director: Shunya Ito
Actors: Meiko Kaji, Kayoko Shiraichi, Fumio Watanabe, Yukie Kagawa
Category: Horror

The Flesh and Blood Show (1972)

11 March 201315 December 2020

Rating: ★★

Psycho Stalks a Theatrical Rehearsal

Director: Pete Walker
Actors: Jenny Hanley, Robin Askwith
Category: Horror

Frankenstein ’80 (1972)

15 March 201717 December 2020

Rating: ★

Modernised Frankenstein Film

Director: Mario Mancini
Actors: John Richardson, Gordon Mitchell, Xiro Papas, Dalila Di Lazzaro, …
Category: Horror

Frenzy (1972)

24 November 200217 December 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Psycho-Thriller

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Alec McGowan, Anna Massey, …
Category: Horror

Fritz the Cat (1972)

2 May 201317 December 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Adult Animation/Gonzo Talking Animals Satire

Director: Ralph Bakshi
Actors: Skip Hinnant, John McCurry
Category: Fantasy

Frogs (1972)

14 September 200214 November 2019

Rating: ★★

Nature’s Revenge

Director: George McCowan
Actors: Sam Elliott, Ray Milland, Joan Van Ark
Category: Horror

The Fury of the Wolfman (1972)

1 December 20201 December 2020

Rating: ★

Werewolf Film

Director: J.M. Zabalza
Actors: Paul Naschy, Perla Cristal
Category: Horror

Garden of the Dead (1972)

23 March 201630 August 2018

Rating: ★★★

Zombies on a Prison Chain Gang

Director: John Hayes
Actors: Phil Kenneally, Susan Charney, John Dennis, Marland Proctor, …
Category: Horror

Gargoyles (1972)

16 December 20156 February 2019

Rating: ★★★

Secret Race of Demons

Director: B.W.L. Norton
Actors: Cornel Wilde, Jennifer Salt, Bernie Casey, Grayson Hall, …
Category: Horror

Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972)

29 July 200220 August 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Absurdist Comedy

Director: Brian De Palma
Actors: Tom Smothers, Orson Welles, Katharine Ross, John Astin
Category: Fantasy

Godzilla vs Gigan (1972)

16 April 19993 December 2020

Rating: 0­

Japanese Monster Bash

Director: Jun Fukuda
Actors: Hiroshi Ishikawa, Kunio Murai
Category: Science Fiction

The Gore Gore Girls (1972)

22 May 20053 October 2019

Rating: ★

Splatter Film

Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis
Actors: Frank Kress, Amy Farrell, Henny Youngman, Hedda Lubin, …
Category: Horror

The Groundstar Conspiracy (1972)

13 December 200212 November 2020

Rating: ★★★

Identity Bender

Director: Lamont Johnson
Actors: George Peppard, Michael Sarrazin, Christine Belford, James Olsen, …
Category: Science Fiction

Haunts of the Very Rich (1972)

19 November 202019 November 2020

Rating: ★★

Mysterious Happenings at a Luxury Resort

Director: Paul Wendkos
Actors: Lloyd Bridges, Cloris Leachman, Edward Asner, Anne Francis, …
Category: Horror

Horror Express (1972)

8 April 20127 January 2020

Rating: ★★★

Body-Hopping Alien Aboard a Train

Director: Eugenio Martin
Actors: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Julio Pena, Albert de Mendoza, …
Category: Horror

I Dismember Mama (1972)

6 February 201912 August 2020

Rating: ★★½

Psycho Film

Director: Paul Leder
Actors: Zooey Hall, Geri Reischl, Elaine Partnow
Category: Horror

Images (1972)

28 October 201217 May 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Identity Blurring/Surrealism

Director: Robert Altman
Actors: Susannah York, Rene Auberjonois, Hugh Millais, Marcel Bozuffi, …
Category: Fantasy

Invasion of the Blood Farmers (1972)

9 February 201329 September 2019

Rating: ½

Blood Sacrificing Druid Cult

Director: Ed Adlum
Actors: Norman Kelley, Bruce Detrick, Tanna Hunter, Richard Erickson, …
Category: Horror

Jack’s Wife (1972)

22 April 201625 March 2019

Rating: ★★★

Suburban Witchcraft

Director: George A. Romero
Actors: Jan White, Ray Laine, Ann Muffly, Bill Thunhurst, …
Category: Horror

The Last House on the Left (1972)

1 May 200112 August 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Sadism and Revenge

Director: Wes Craven
Actors: David A. Hess, Fred Lincoln, Martin Kove
Category: Horror

The Last House on the Left (2009)

17 July 20103 June 2020

Rating: ★★

Sadism and Revenge

Director: Dennis Iliadis
Actors: Garrett Dillahunt, Tony Goldwyn, Sara Paxton, Monica Potter, …
Category: Horror

The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972)

10 June 201225 November 2020

Rating: ★★

Bigfoot Film/”True Story”

Director: Charles B. Pierce
Category: Horror

Lisa and the Devil (1972)

11 June 200015 October 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Italian Psycho-Thriller/Haunted House Film

Director: Mario Bava
Actors: Elke Sommer, Telly Savalas, Alida Valli, Sylva Koscina, …
Category: Horror

Malpertuis (1972)

2 September 200230 August 2018

Rating: ★★★★

Mysterious Old House/Greek Gods

Director: Harry Kumel
Actors: Orson Welles, Susan Hampshire, Matthieu Carriere, Michel Bouquet, …
Category: Fantasy

The Man (1972)

4 June 20062 June 2020

Rating: ★★★½

First Black US President

Director: Joseph Sargent
Actors: James Earl Jones, Burgess Meredith, Martin Balsam, William Windom, …
Category: Science Fiction

Night of Fear (1972)

3 February 20066 August 2019

Rating: ★★★½

Australian Backwoods Brutality

Director: Terry Bourke
Actors: Carla Hoogeveen, Norman Yemm, Briony Behets
Category: Horror

Night of the Lepus (1972)

3 April 200214 August 2019

Rating: 0­

Giant Rabbits Amok

Director: William F. Claxton
Actors: Stuart Whitman, Rory Calhoun, Janet Leigh, DeForest Kelley, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Night Stalker (1972)

29 June 20087 November 2019

Rating: ★★★½

Journalist Tracks a Vampire

Director: John Llewellyn Moxey
Actors: Darren McGavin, Carol Lynley, Simon Oakland, Ralph Meeker, …
Category: Horror

Nothing But the Night (1972)

18 March 20031 May 2020

Rating: ★★

Mind Transplant Syndicate

Director: Peter Sasdy
Actors: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Diana Dors
Category: Horror

Now You See Him, Now You Don’t (1972)

9 February 199930 August 2018

Rating: ★★

Invisible Teen/Disney Comedy

Director: Robert Butler
Actors: Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, Cesar Romero, Michael McGreevey, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Other (1972)

1 May 200120 September 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Diabolical Twin

Director: Robert Mulligan
Actors: Chris Udvarnoky, Martin Udvarnoky, Uta Hagen, Diana Muldaur, …
Category: Horror

Play It Again Sam (1972)

2 February 200122 April 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Romantic Advice from Humphrey Bogart’s Ghost Comedy

Director: Herbert Ross
Actors: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Ross, Susan Anspach
Category: Fantasy

The Possession of Joel Delaney (1972)

3 May 199930 August 2018

Rating: ★★★½

Possession

Director: Waris Hussein
Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Perry King, Barbara Trentham, Miriam Colon, …
Category: Horror

Psyched by the 4D Witch (A Tale of Demonology) (1972)

7 May 200230 August 2018

Rating: 0­

Sex and Witchcraft

Director: Victor Luminera
Actors: Margo, Esoterica, Tom Yerian
Category: Horror

Rage (1972)

17 November 201022 March 2019

Rating: ★★½

Toxic Spill/Military Cover-Up

Director: George C. Scott
Actors: George C. Scott, Martin Sheen, Kenneth Tobey, Richard Basehart, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here! (1972)

27 August 20145 May 2019

Rating: 0­

Werewolf Family

Director: Andy Milligan
Actors: Hope Stansbury, Jackie Skarvelis, Ian Innes, Joan Ogden, …
Category: Horror

Santo vs Frankenstein’s Daughter (1972)

12 February 202012 February 2020

Rating: ★★★

Mexican Wrestler Superhero vs Frankenstein’s Daughter

Director: Miguel M. Delgado
Actors: Santo, Gina Romand, Carlos Agosti
Category: Horror

Savages (1972)

11 May 201530 August 2018

Rating: ★★★

Savage Tribe Inexplicably Become Aristocrats

Director: James Ivory
Actors: Anne Francine, Lewis Stadlen, Thayer David, Martin Kove, …
Category: Fantasy

Silent Running (1972)

27 April 20033 November 2019

Rating: ★★½

Saving the World’s Last Forest in Space

Director: Douglas Trumbull
Actors: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint, …
Category: Science Fiction

Slaughterhouse Five (1972)

27 April 200310 August 2020

Rating: ★★½

Man Unstuck in Time/Kurt Vonnegut Adaptation

Director: George Roy Hill
Actors: Michael Sachs, Valerie Perrine, Eugene Roche
Category: Science Fiction

Solaris (1972)

14 June 20022 October 2020

Rating: ★★★★★

Enigmatic Alien Planet/Ghosts of Memory

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Actors: Donatis Banionis, Natalya Bondarchuk
Category: Science Fiction

Tales from the Crypt (1972)

18 February 200116 July 2019

Rating: ★★★

Horror Anthology/Comic-Book Adaptation

Director: Freddie Francis
Actors: Peter Cushing, Ralph Richardson, Joan Collins, Chloe Franks, …
Category: Horror

Tales That Witness Madness (1973)

1 November 200216 May 2019

Rating: ★★½

Horror Anthology

Director: Freddie Francis
Actors: Donald Pleasence, Joan Collins, Kim Novak, Jack Hawkins, …
Category: Horror

The Pied Piper (1972)

3 December 2019

Rating: ★★★½

Fairytale Adaptation

Director: Jacques Demy
Actors: Donovan, John Hurt, Roy Kinnear, Michael Hordern, …
Category: Fantasy

The Thing with Two Heads (1972)

1 September 200712 May 2020

Rating: ★★★

Two-Headed Transplant

Director: Lee Frost
Actors: Ray Milland, Rosey Grier, Don Marshall, Roger Perry
Category: Horror

Three on a Meathook (1972)

1 April 20201 April 2020

Rating: ½

Psycho Film

Director: William Girdler
Category: Horror

Tintin and the Lake of Sharks (1972)

30 December 200822 March 2019

Rating: ★★½

Comic-Book Character/Animation

Director: Raymond LeBlanc
Category: Science Fiction

Twins of Evil (1971)

12 April 20035 April 2019

Rating: ★★★

Vampire Twins/Hammer Film

Director: John Hough
Actors: Peter Cushing, Madeline Collinson, Mary Collinson, Damien Thomas, …
Category: Horror

Vampire Circus (1972)

16 December 200925 November 2019

Rating: ★★★

Circus of Vampires/Hammer Film

Director: Robert Young
Actors: Adrienne Corri, Thorley Walters, John Moulder-Brown, Anthony Corlan, …
Category: Horror

Z.P.G. (Zero Population Growth) (1972)

20 December 201222 November 2019

Rating: ★★★

Dystopian Future Where Childbirth is Outlawed

Director: Michael Campus
Actors: Oliver Reed, Geraldine Chaplin, Diane Cilento, Don Gordon
Category: Science Fiction

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